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  • The Bloody Spur The Bloody Spur
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    The Bloody Spur

    HELP ME FOR GODS SAKELater the doctors would use these words to decipher the riddle of a perverted killer. Right now, the lipstick scrawl signaled the start of New York's greatest manhunt.
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  • Look Alive Look Alive
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    Look Alive

    How can an elderly lady, discovered lying dead in a hammock by her great-niece and companion, be sitting up and calmly giving an interview with reporters only minutes later? That is the perplexing question that comes to the ears of debonair sleuth...
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  • Boston Blackie Boston Blackie
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    Boston Blackie

    Boston Blackie isn't afraid of stepping over onto the wrong side of the law. A former jewel thief and safe cracker, a hardened criminal having served time in a California prison, he knows a lot about crime.He's an "enemy to those who make him an enemy,...
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  • Sheltering Night Sheltering Night
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    Sheltering Night

    She traded hope of heaven for a paradise on earth.She was a sprite, a witch, a perpetual temptation to every man, a soul searing torment to herself, and rough was the road she traveled.First published in February 1952.
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  • The Gray Mask The Gray Mask
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    The Gray Mask

    Garth, in response to the unforeseen summons, hurried along the hallway and opened the inspector's door. As he faced the rugged figure behind the desk, and gazed into those eyes whose somnolence concealed a perpetual vigil, his heart quickened.He had...
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  • Private Chauffeur Private Chauffeur
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    Private Chauffeur

    He pulled her close to him and kissed her gently. "I don't think so," he said. It was no longer important that Erica had been Ivan's mistress. He wanted her more than he had ever wanted any woman before.He let his hands slip lightly over her smoothly...
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  • The Double Take The Double Take
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    The Double Take

    A hard-boiled mystery story featuring Stuart Bailey, tougher than a ten-minute egg. Violence, blackmail and a beautiful dame who suddenly turned up very, very dead.The book was the basis of the film entitled "I Love Trouble" with James Carter and Janet...
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  • In His Blood In His Blood
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    In His Blood

    The knife was as familiar to his hand and as innocuous as a pencil, in spite of its razor edge. And yet earlier in the day he had closed his hand on the sharp edge and noticed with surprise that the steel had sliced painfully, if not seriously, into his...
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  • Six Deadly Dames Six Deadly Dames
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    Six Deadly Dames

    A collection of six classic tales featuring hard-boiled ex-cop Donny Donahue, who now works for the Interstate Detective Agency. These stories ran in Black Mask magazine between 1931 and 1932. This collection was originally published in 1950.
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  • Lead With Your Left Lead With Your Left
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    Lead With Your Left

    It was a few minutes before eleven when I unlocked our door. The dumb lamp we had in the two-by-four "foyer" was on. The lamp looked like a drippy flower and cost fifty-seven bucks strictly because it was imported from Denmark. If all their lamps are...
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  • In the Shadow of the Wonder Wheel In the Shadow of the Wonder Wheel
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    In the Shadow of the Wonder Wheel

    "Mallory McGill has no idea how she got to Coney Island Creek. The last thing she remembers is traveling to the hospital to deliver her baby. Now her baby is missing, and she is being accused of committing an unspeakable crime.For Teri Cardello, a tough...
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  • Murder in Coral Bay Murder in Coral Bay
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    Murder in Coral Bay

    Murder disrupts the calm of Coral Bay on St. John in the United States Virgin Islands. One of the world's most unique communities, it is a place where many people are known by nicknames, their birth names often buried in life histories some-such as the...
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  • Shadowboxer Shadowboxer
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    Shadowboxer

    Once a happy family man, Kealan now spends his days walking aimlessly and crashing in his friend's spare room. It never seems to matter how much he walks, because his shadow is always there. When he meets younger Valerie, an inquisitive and sensitive...
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  • The Big Fix The Big Fix
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    The Big Fix

    The Big Fix by Ed LacyAuthor of the 1958 Edgar Award-winning novel Room to Swing!On the night Irish Tommy Cork's murder was planned, nothing very much out of the ordinary happened. Tommy was in the ring, taking a pasting-as usual. Back to the ropes,...
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  • The Stainless Steel Rat and The Misplaced Battleship The Stainless Steel Rat and The Misplaced Battleship
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    The Stainless Steel Rat and The Misplaced Battleship

    It's more than a little careless to lose a battleship, even in interstellar space. Enter Slippery Jim diGriz, better known as the Stainless Steel Rat, the fastest talking con-man in the galaxy. Jim will need to go undercover to find the missing...
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  • Caribbean Ice Caribbean Ice
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    Caribbean Ice

    It is the early 1980s, a time when air travel was uncomplicated, when people still smoked in offices, restaurants and bars. Caribbean Ice, set on St. Ursula, a British Caribbean island very near to the American and British Virgin Islands, is the second...
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  • October Fury October Fury
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    October Fury

    Set in the early 1980s, a time when air travel was uncomplicated, when people still smoked in offices, restaurants and bars, October Fury is the final novel in the St. Ursula trilogy, featuring Frank James, poet and private detective. St. Ursula is a...
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  • February Heat February Heat
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    February Heat

    It is the early 1980s, a time when air travel was uncomplicated, when people still smoked in offices, restaurants and bars. February Heat, set on St. Ursula, a British Caribbean island very near to the American and British Virgin Islands, is the first...
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  • A PLACE IN PARADISE A PLACE IN PARADISE
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    A PLACE IN PARADISE

    As Anna Delinny, a central character in A Place in Paradise says, "There are places of power on the earth. Some of great import to the entire world, others of local interest. Talk to someone who has been to Delphi. Ask what kinds of feelings the place...
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  • It Happened on St. John It Happened on St. John
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    It Happened on St. John

    It Happened on St. John is a love letter to one of the world’s loveliest and most unique communities in one of the world’s loveliest and most unique places. Known locally as Love City, St. John is the smallest and most undeveloped of the...
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  • Fallen Star Fallen Star
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    Fallen Star

    Avid feminist and aspiring filmmaker, Kate Bloom discovers long lost footage that holds the key to who murdered her grandmother.  Legendary movie star, Gloria Reardon, may be dead, but friends and lovers from the Golden Age of Hollywood’s...
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  • Notches Notches
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    Notches

    “[An] enjoyable series of interest to western crime readers, especially those favoring Montana authors C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Keith McCafferty as well as fans of the Hillermans” (Booklist).   The news is bad: five young...
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  • Wolf, No Wolf Wolf, No Wolf
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    Wolf, No Wolf

    A half-Indian, half-French deputy with “a shrewd mind and wry sense of humor” investigates a case of homicide on the range (The New York Times Book Review).   Two men have been cutting fences at the ranches of Toussaint, Montana, loosing...
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  • The Curse of Hostal La Parata The Curse of Hostal La Parata
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    The Curse of Hostal La Parata

    My Paradise Mountain Resort used to be a place of peace and quiet, but now it is full of blood, anger, and distraught. My friends and neighbors have turned on me, and now they are trying to turn me into one of them. The blood shall continue to spill and...
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  • Ikill Ikill
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    Ikill

    The theme behind the thriller iKill is simple: technology is used to propagate pure human evil for the purpose of revenge. A page-turner with commercial appeal and a word count of approximately 80,000, iKill features well-defined characters: sixteen...
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  • Dancing around the Hill Dancing around the Hill
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    Dancing around the Hill

    In the 1970s, Canada's cities are rife with political turmoil. Journalist Tony Muldoon capitalizes on the copious scandals and underhanded election games in his column, "Dancing around the Hill," featured in the Ottawa Tribune. His career is on the fast...
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  • The Bone Exchange The Bone Exchange
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    The Bone Exchange

    Jeremiah's intuition becomes an omen in the darkness of discovery. It arrives for no reason then disappears without trace leaving him, the discoverer to begin a dangerous jigsaw of doubts.
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    The Farmer Boy Murders

    What causes a beloved son to go wrong?The product of demanding parents who greatly mistreated him, he thinks they must have loved him at one point. But as the child of a rural community without mental health care, his young soul was on its own as their...
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  • Lady Bag Lady Bag
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    Lady Bag

    Don't judge a book by its cover, or a bag lady by her appearance. 'I didn't always look like this,' she says. 'Being barmy doesn't mean I'm stupid.' Lady Bag does have her problems - her close relationship with cheap red wine, for example. When she gets...
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  • Quarter Note Tales #4 Quarter Note Tales #4
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    Quarter Note Tales #4

    Once again Axel Crochet, bearded musicologist-at-large, stumbles into murderous intrigue amid church politics and academic amphigory, where tempers run so high because the stakes are so low.In "Cat's Paw," Axel is convinced by a colleague at Pittsburgh's...
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  • The Secret on the Island The Secret on the Island
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    The Secret on the Island

    As a research assistant for a Texas detective agency, Maggie Haslo has a knack for connecting the dots. She can see that the facts don't add up in the suspicious death of her friend Mando. A history professor at the local university, Mando was killed in...
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  • Alexandra Alexandra
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    Alexandra

    The San Juan County sheriff, Bill Cassidy, always seemed to have his chest puffed out! Alexandra guessed maybe he was afraid the citizenry might fail to notice the huge badge! He began blusteringly, that it was no secret to him that Jared's father often...
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  • "EL LAMENTO DEL CUERVO" "EL LAMENTO DEL CUERVO"
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    "EL LAMENTO DEL CUERVO"

    Español - ResumenLa historia empieza en un tranquilo vecindario en las afueras de Detroit, donde la familia Lipinsky vive con su hijo adolecente, Robert, y su hermana, menor Sarah-Jane. De pronto la familia afronta un duro golpe cuando los padres de...
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  • The Last Warning The Last Warning
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    The Last Warning

    Suzan, living totally isolated from the outside world after the tragedy she had been through, accepted this night job in Topkapi Palace, where she also lived. Taking a nap she suddenly leaped out in bed. Turning to her right, she got petrified when she...
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  • Ocean's Tempest Ocean's Tempest
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    Ocean's Tempest

    In a modern world, pirates are still wreaking havoc while working closely with terrorists as well as narco and human traffickers. Captain Thor Henrikssen, known to his crew as Cap T, is an esteemed leader who must deal with the shady characters...
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  • Departure of Reason Departure of Reason
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    Departure of Reason

    Nate can't remember how many pills he gave his dying wife Jennie as she lay in their bed, pleading with him to make the pain go away. When Jennie ends up dead, Detective Stone has no empathy for the eighty-two-year-old widower. Mercy killing or not, Nate...
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  • Recipe for Death Recipe for Death
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    Recipe for Death

    It's April 1949 in Eda City and former detective, Phillip Bartlow, has big plans for a new career. In this prequel to The Maltese Mystery Meatloaf and Other Tales, Bartlow's first case as a culinary private investigator gets him entangled in a web of...
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  • The Truth Be Damned The Truth Be Damned
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    The Truth Be Damned

    When Alex Fischer receives a federal jury summons, she fears it is for the upcoming trial of notorious mob boss, Sly Devaney. She has no interest in organized crime. In her mind, it is an evil world she is unwilling to enter. Alex is the perfect juror...
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  • Murder at the La Jolla Apogee Murder at the La Jolla Apogee
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    Murder at the La Jolla Apogee

    During real estate boom times, risks are overcome by ever improving market conditions. When the boom ends, as so often happens, lenders can get stuck with half finished projects and no ability to complete them. Lenders then sell the projects at a loss or...
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  • The Ace of Spades Murder The Ace of Spades Murder
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    The Ace of Spades Murder

    "My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." -- Neil...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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